Here’s a comment I wrote to a blog post “2011 was a terrible year for tech”

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/the_year_s_worst_tech_trend_complexity_.html

I would like to see more advances in consumer post-pc devices. To be post-pc, I want to do everything as a consumer on one device. If it’s one device, then it’s going to have to be a smartphone, because I don’t want to carry around two devices. This is what I need my consumer post-pc smartphone to do:

- I want to plug my smartphone into a TV and get a desktop-like experience with a fully-functional keyboard
- I want to update the smartphone without having to plug it into a computer
- I want to import CDs and paper books I have bought or been given as a gift into the smartphone without needing to rip or scan using a computer
- I want websites which consistently and reliably work on my smartphone
- I want a wifi hub which can be set up using my smartphone
- I want to remove the need to buy a tablet or laptop for day-to-day needs
- I want to back everything up into the cloud so I don’t have to worry about losing anything
- And just to be safe, to be able to archive all my data onto a disk connected to my wifi network which I can manage though my smartphone

This will be a truly post-pc consumer device. I want to tell my mum that if she gets a smartphone, she can ditch the PC because she can do everything she needs to do on her phone and by plugging it into the TV for the ‘desktop’ view.

And if I can do everything on one device, then all the issues of inter-device interoperability vanish. For example, my bookmarks don’t need to be synced because I’m only using one device. Simples.